What is Nvu about?

You use Nvu to create or edit your own web pages on place them on the Web. Nvu is as easy to use as a word-processing program. The files that Nvu creates are called HTML (HyperText Markup Languages) files because they conform to the HTML 4.01 Recommendation released by the World Wide Web Consortium. Web Browsers interpret HTML content to display these files as formatted web pages.

NoteThis chapter covers many of Nvu's features. To get additional information about the product, we do recommend the Nvu User Forums available at http://forum.nvudev.org/ .

Installing Nvu

Installing Nvu on Windows

First, exit any program that may be running on your computer before you begin installation, then take the following steps:

Double-click on the Nvu installer file, usually a file named nvu-VVV-win32-installer-full.exe where VVV is a version number.
Read the Welcome screen and click on Next to continue.
Read the Software License Agreement, select "I accept the agreement" and click Next to continue.
Select the destination directory you prefer, and click Next.

The ideal choice for most people is the default destination directory, c:\Program Files\Nvu .
The installation program can add for you a new entry in your Start Menu. Change the entry's name if Nvu is not your favorite choice, and click Next to continue.

Check the "Don't create a Start Menu folder" is you don't want such a menu entry to be automatically created.
The installation program can also add an icon for Nvu or your desktop and another icon in your Quick Launch toolbar (that's a toolbar located into your Windows toolbar, where applications can be launched through a single click). Check or uncheck the options according to your wishes and click Next to continue.
Then the installation program shows a summary screen of all the actions needed to install Nvu. In case of error, just click Back and fix your settings. If everything is correct, click Install to install Nvu.
The Install Progress window contains a Cancel button that you can click to stop the installation process.
Once the files are all installed, the Installation Progress window disappears, and the last window of the Installation Program lets you launch Nvu immediately if you want. If you prefer launching Nvu later, just uncheck the corresponding checkbox. Click on Finish to end the installation process.

Installing Nvu on Mac OS X

Double-click on the dmg package, usually a file named nvu-VVV-mac.dmg where VVV is a version number. This opens a finder window like the following one:
Drag the Nvu icon from the main panel onto Applications in the folders panel. Click on Applications and make sure Nvu is available there.
You can also add an quick launch icon for Nvu to your dock: just drag Nvu's icon and drop it onto the dock.
Close the dmg view clicking on the eject button at the right of nvuVVV (where VVV is a version number) in the folders panel.
That's all, Nvu is now installed.

Installing Nvu on Linspire

The whole installation process of Nvu on Linspire is done through Click'N'Run.

Installing Nvu on Fedora2 and other linux distributions

The tarball can be uncompressed anywhere on your disk typing

bzip2 -dc nvu-VVV-XXX.tar.bz2 | tar xf -

where VVV is a version number and XXX a platform identifier. This will create a new directory called nvu-vvv where vvv is a version number. The file nvu in that directory is executable. Just run it to start the application